Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team a-field! How bow'd the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!

There's an impression that after sugar and pineapple went, agriculture was dead, and we would just turn the islands over to tourism. That's not the case. Agriculture is important. Hawaii should be green and not covered by houses.

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands

Ill husbandry lieth In prison for debt: Good husbandry spieth Where profit get. - Thomas Tusser,

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest. - Thomas Tusser,

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands